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REVIEWS OF EUDORA WELTY'S EARLIER BOOKS:

'A Curtain of Green' (1941)
"Few contemporary books have ever impressed me quite as deeply as this book of stories by Eudora Welty. . . . Her art is spontaneous, and of that poetic quality which values the necessity of form by instinct."

'The Robber Bridegroom' (1942)
"Instead of following the design that the critics had laid out for her, she took a big jump, left psychology, common sense and the short-story writer's good-will far behind to tell a most wonderful fairy tale."

'Delta Wedding' (1946)
". . . has all the excellencies of her short stories with all the advantages of a wider pattern."

'The Ponder Heart,' reviewed by V. S. Pritchett (1954)
". . . one of Miss Welty's lighter works, but there is not a mistake in it."

'The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories' (1955)
"Eudora Welty's characters . . . have till now been found no farther than a whoop and a holler from Jackson . . . [Three of the stories in this collection] concern journeys in latitudes where unfamiliar manners and idioms prevail. Miss Welty's talents . . . have, however, suffered no adverse sea-change."

'Losing Battles' (1970)
". . . a major work of the imagination and a gift to cause general rejoicing. . . . conclusive evidence of what many have long believed: that Eudora Welty possesses the surest comic sense of any American writer alive."

'One Time, One Place' (1971)
"As purely technical performances the pictures are of uneven value. . . . But no apologies are in order, and Miss Welty offers none. The merit of the pictures, she says, lies in their subject matter."

'The Optimist's Daughter' (1972)
". . . a miracle of compression, the kind of book, small in scope but profound in its implications, that rewards a lifetime of work."

'The Eye of the Story' (1978)
"In this invigorating selection of her reviews and essays, Eudora Welty constantly touches the painful place where literary critic and creative writer meet."